Cross Country Heads to Boston for the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo men's cross country team will travel to Boston, Mass. for the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown hosted by Boston College. The men's 8k race will step off at 3:30 p.m. in the historic Franklin Park in Boston, Mass.

Coming off a third place finish at the University of Rochester Yellowjacket Invitational, the men come into this weekend ranked 14^th in the USTFCCCA Northeast Region in Division I. The team will face tough competition as Boston College, Albany, Arkansas, Army, Boston University, Brown, Columbia, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Maine, UMass, UMass Lowell, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence, Rhode Island, Santa Clara, Syracuse, and Yale will participate at this year's event.

This will be the second week in a row that the team will race in an 8k. Sophomore Evan Hilbert led the Bulls with a 15^th place finish with a time of 26:09.1 last Saturday. Oscar Vazquez was not far behind as he claimed 17^th place in 26:13.7. Freshman Cory Demo finished in 24^th place in 26:18.8. Nicholas Taboni (32^nd place, 26:39.6) and freshman Matthew Persampieri (40^th place, 26:55.3) were the final two to cap off the Bulls' top-five finishers. Sophomores Brett Russell and Zachary Medicis finished in 45^th and 99^th, respectively, as freshman Justin Tedeschi finished in 57^th.

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Cross Country Heads to Boston for the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown

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Players Mentioned

Cory Demo

Evan Hilbert

Zachary Medicis

Matthew Persampieri

Brett Russell

Nicholas Taboni

Justin Tedeschi

Oscar Vazquez

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